An upright branching shrub, without spines; but of the 
“size it may attain we are not yet entitled to speak; branches 
leafless downwards. Leaves about five inches long, one — 
and a half broad, opposite, Spreading, crowded towards — 
the end of the branches, lanceolate, entire-edged, covered 
with a flat-pressed rough nap thickest on their upper sur- | 
face, much farther tapered towards the short thick petiole 
than towards their point, pale and reticulately veined at 
the under surface, nerves ascendent varicose beneath, and 
thickly set with flat-pressed bristly hairs. Flowers yellow, 
several, about an inch anda half long, of the circumference 
of a middle-sized peri, loosely aggregate at the end of the 
branches. Bractes two, opposite, close, under the calyx, 
nearly of the length of that linear, slender, flatly hirsute, 
indented and bristly ciliated; bristles tawny. Calyx pubescent 
in the same manner as the bractes, except that the bristles 
which terminate the teeth at their edge are more conspicuous, 
nervedly streaked; two larger leaflets lanceolately ovate, 
pointed awned equal to about half the length of the corolla 
or rather more, two alternate small ones lanceolately linear. 
Corolla cylindric, trumpet-formed, downy on the outside; 
tube 3 times longer than the limb, slightly recurved; limb op 
border slightly bilabiate, nearly equal, 4 upper segments 
exactly equal, recurvedly spreading, oblong, rather pointed, 
the fifth lowest Jargest and revolute. Filaments inserted in 
the tube on a line with the top of the vermen, where a 
thin bearded pubescence marks the position; two loneer 
protruding beyond the tube; anthers of a golden yellow, sa- 
gittately oblong, bilocular; pollen of these (when slightly 
magnified) granular, granules yellow globular; two much 
shorter, with small effete anthers, concealed within the 
tube. | Germen placed in a shallow thick cupular disk 
ovately tapered, shining, bilocular, each cell haying two 
lenticular ovules: style filiform, white: stigma? ; 
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a A flower dissected vertically, 
